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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Void Linux with musl. I wanted to try setting up a distro with Musl, but many things I use daily simply don't work with it, and the hassle of troubleshooting everything was a bit too much. I went back to Fedora Workstation, and I'll likely stay on it for my workstation (though I'll switch to Fedora Kinoite when Fedora 40 releases). I also use Fedora Server for my personal server, since it's very familiar to me, and there's not a huge point in switching to CentOS anymore with the recent changes, so I'll probably just stick to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I use Void Linux glibc, I wouldn't daily drive musl either, although there are ways to run glibc apps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

but many things I use daily simply don't work with it

Out of curiosity, what doesn't work? And do you mean with musl or Void in general?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm talking mostly about musl, but Void with glibc still requires more work than a "just works" distro. As such, I didn't see a point in trying Void with glibc, because the biggest benefit I saw to switching was for musl. It's great for some, but not for me, just as I wouldn't use Gentoo. There were a lot of things that didn't run, I don't have a full list. I know for a fact that Steam (or any Steam games) wouldn't run, I'm fairly confident that the OnlyOffice suite wouldn't work, I believe that EasyEffects wouldn't run which was a big problem, since I use that for system wide equalization, and for my microphone filters. I probably could have figured out how to set everything up with bare PipeWire, but it's basically the same story for everything: it just requires way more work. My VPN (Mullvad) isn't compiled for musl, nor was the Nextcloud client, and many things I use every day. Those are just the things I remember having issues with off the top of my head, and it may not have only been musl that was the problem, but it's very likely it was.